In a segment on PBS NewsHour, Vice President of People Operations Laszlo Bock unveiled previously unreleased workforce demographic statistics. Currently, 70% of Google's workforce is male. Sixty-one percent is white, 30% is Asian. A mere 3% of the company's staff is Hispanic, while 2% is Black.

"We knew," said Bock, speaking of the decision several months ago to release the data, "it wouldn't look good."

While far from flattering, the information is hardly shocking. Tech behemoths like Google have long railed against the disclosure of their employment data for this very reason--the numbers underline the white, male tech workforce at which many have come to roll their eyes.

Tech journalists have soughtthis type of data from companies like Google for years, and of late outside voices have added volume to the call for it. Earlier this month, Jesse Jackson and representatives of his Rainbow PUSH Coalition attended Google and shareholder meetings to demand greater inclusion for women and minorities in tech.

We're not where we want to be when it comes to diversity. Image via Google.com.

“Technology is supposed to be about inclusion," Jackson wrote in a letter to a handful of major tech companies earlier this year, "but sadly, patterns of exclusion remains the order of the day. When it comes to African-Americans on Board[s] – ZERO. C-suites, ZERO. Minority firms in IPO’s and financial transactions, advertising and professional services – ZERO. These ZEROES are contrary to the enlightened values exposed by the industry."

While the public release of these numbers has the potential to pressure other companies to do the same, the data's positioning as a recruitment strategy that presents a lack of progress to this point as an opportunity for the future is particularly savvy on Google's part.

A lander page on the site shares the information under the heading "Making Google a workplace for everyone" and states that the release of the data is designed to further the company's efforts in pursuing diverse talent.

Links to employee resource groups--including "Gayglers," "Google American Indian Network," and "Google Women in Engineering"-- are provided, along with information about "the science of inclusion" and the company's efforts to combat the "unconscious bias" Bock referenced repeatedly.

Stanford University professor Vivek Wadhwa, who also appeared on the program, said he viewed the release as signalling a more mature Silicon Valley tech scene.

"Silicon Valley is a boys' club," said Wadhwa, "Young kids hiring other young kids. It's time for Silicon Valley to grow up."